HOROWITZ, ARYEH LEIB BEN ELEAZAR HA-LEVI
- HOROWITZ, ARYEH LEIB BEN ELEAZAR HA-LEVI
- HOROWITZ, ARYEH LEIB BEN ELEAZAR HA-LEVI (1758–1844),
Galician rabbi. Horowitz's father, who was av betdin of
Zalozhtsy, was the son of isaac ha-levi b. jacob jokel horowitz of
Hamburg. Aryeh Horowitz studied under his father and later in the
yeshivah of Isaac Ḥarif in Sambor. He also studied in Tysmenitsa under
his uncle, Moses Meshullam Egra, by whom he was ordained rabbi. In 1784,
on the recommendation of jacob lorberbaum , Horowitz was appointed
rabbi of Stanislav, an office which he held until a year before his
death. Subsequent members of the Horowitz family occupied that rabbinate
until 1939. Horowitz energetically dealt with the widespread poverty
following economic difficulties which faced the country in 1818 and
affected the Jewish community and helped establish free loan funds and
provide accommodation for those rendered homeless. In the dispute which
broke out after the appearance in 1793 of the responsa, Besamim
Rosh, with the commentary Kasa de-Harsana by Saul
Lewin, Horowitz was asked by hirsch lewin , Saul's father, to use
his influence with Egra not to ban his son's book although various
rabbis insisted that it be banned. Horowitz and Egra did in fact refrain
from intervening. Horowitz was opposed to Ḥasidism and
endeavored to prevent its gaining control of his community. On the other
hand, he did not vehemently oppose the maskilim. In the
dispute between the publishers of Vilna and Slavuta in connection with
the publication of the Talmud, he decided in favor of Slavuta and in
1836 gave them his commendation. Following a dispute in 1843, he left
Stanislav and went to Tysmenitsa, where he died. He left behind
responsa, homilies, and novellae, but only two of his works were
published after his death – both entitled Penei Aryeh: a
biblical commentary (1876), and responsa on Oraḥ Ḥayyim
published at the beginning of the responsa, Bar Livai (1909),
by his son Meshullam Issachar.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
M. Berger, Kunteres Ro'ei Yisrael, in: Meshullam Issachar
Horowitz, She'elot u-Teshuvot Bar Livai, Mahadura Tinyana
(1909); H.D. Friedberg, Toledot Mishpaḥat Horowitz
(19282), 18, no. 26; Z.(H.) Horowitz, Kitvei
ha-Ge'onim (1928), 81–90; idem, in: HḤY, 14 (1930),
7–9; N.M. Gelber, in: Arim ve-Immahot be-Yisrael, 5 (1952),
23, 25–28; Y. Horowitz, ibid., 68–74.
(Yehoshua Horowitz)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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